Interesting fusion of anti-Indigenous and anti-Irish sentiments in late 19th century magazine Wild Oates.pic.twitter.com/WcQMHmYv7d
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I love Oluo’s claim that “whiteness is a pyramid scheme” and the Irish, Italians, Bohemians, etc were convinced/chose to try to climb up from their lower rung instead of make solidarity with the folks “below” them on the scheme. Gradations.
See also: slave-owning Cherokees
That's interesting. I suppose the lenses of these things shift in scholarship as cultural dynamics change, but to me that doesn't seem too far afield from what, say, David Roediger argued in _Wages of Whiteness_ in the early 90s. Thanks for the reply!
‘My victimhood was worse so yours’ doesn’t count’ isn’t very convincing take. It’s another example of judging the past with the measure of today. At its worst, it is a refusal to extend empathy to those outside your own group, and that’s the root of racism itself.
A lot of that was because it helped to weaponize the various waves of disenfranchised "white" immigrant populations against the people of color already present in North America as well as those who were also immigrants. Using one othered group against another is colonialist 101.
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